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Louis "Tony" Curiel has been creating beautiful fine art since the mid 1970s and today he not only oversees the curriculum at the visual arts school he founded, but also oversees all the work his team of professionals create for others, which includes developing and creating glass "hot shops" for other artists.

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Louis "Tony" Curiel graduated from Cal State University in Fullerton, California in 1974 with a B.A. in Art Education.

From 1974 to 1990 he maintained both a working studio and a network of customers. He also taught for different arts organizations and promoted the “glass arts” throughout the country.

From 2003 to present he has been the CRVA Director, coordinating activities at the campus through the different and diverse curriculum of his “ideology” of education through the visual arts.

His notable achievements include:

►1^st Art Glass Manufacturer of sheet art glass used later by the Bogenrief Studios

►Designed and built a hot shop for Ron Schmidt in Kearney, Nebraska

►Built a sheet glass manufacturing unit for leaded glass fabrication workshops at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska

►Neon and Art Glass Studio, Plymouth, Michigan, 1990-2003, teaching for both Ford Motor, Company and General Motors employees “illuminated gases” and “leaded glass construction," for the ETAP program(s) -- (Educational Training Program). This included an alliance with the Glass Academy, Dearborn, who is associated with the University of Michigan, Dearborn.

►In 2003 he designed and built the furnace in the "Hot Shop" for Bogenrief Studios located in Spencer, Iowa.

►In 2010 Curiel hopes to create a portable "Hot Shop" so that his excellent team of glassblowers can travel the state and share the process of creating glass art with larger audiences.

Louis "Tony" Curiel at work

Work Samples for the CRVA Glassblowing Team Headed-up and Directed by Louis "Tony" Curiel

World-Renown Glass Artist and Designer/Builder of Glass "Hot Shops"

CRVA's Jon Curiel working at the furnace in the Bogenrief Studios' Hot Shop in Spencer, Iowa. This is just one of the many "hot shops" created by his father Louis "Tony" Curiel.

Jon Curiel and fellow worker at the Bogenrief Studios' Hot Shop holding an educational glassblowing demonstration for the public.

Louis "Tony" Curiel working at a furnace he built for his Omaha Hot Shop. This artist has created a number of hot shops for others as well as himself.

Curiel owned and operated two glass studios (one in Omaha and one in Detroit) before making the decision to spend more of his time engaged in teaching.

For many years Louis Curiel's glass art was created in a "hot shop." Today, in 2010, he focuses more on teaching and sharing his wealth of knowledge on the various glass arts. He also consults and builds glass "hot shops" for other artists.